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Al-Mutawakkil

822 - 861

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Ja'far ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh (Arabic: جعفر بن محمد بن هارون, romanized: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn); March 822 – 11 December 861, commonly known by his regnal name al-Mutawwakil ala Allah (Arabic: المتوكل على الله, romanized: al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh, lit. 'He who relies on God'), was the tenth Abbasid caliph, ruling from 847 until his assassination in 861. He succeeded his brother, al-Wathiq (r. 842–847), and is known for expanding the empire to its maximum extent. He was deeply religious, and is remembered for discarding the Muʿtazila, ending the Mihna (a period of persecution of Islamic scholars), and releasing Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Mutawakkil has received more than 517,852 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Al-Mutawakkil is the 1,805th most popular politician (up from 2,227th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Iraq (up from 62nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular Iraqi Politician.

Al-Mutawakkil was the caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, and is most famous for his persecution of Shiites.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Al-Mutawakkil ranks 1,805 out of 19,576. Before him are Isaac I Komnenos, Catherine Cornaro, Meñli I Giray, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Celâl Bayar. After him are Jiang Ziya, Peter IV of Aragon, Senusret I, Chenghua Emperor, Joseph McCarthy, and Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 822, Al-Mutawakkil ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 861, Al-Mutawakkil ranks 1. 

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Al-Mutawakkil ranks 52 out of 384. Before him are Tiglath-Pileser I (-1200), Shalmaneser III (-900), Ziryab (789), Nahum (-600), Mustafa Barzani (1903), and Ashurnasirpal II (-1000). After him are Junayd of Baghdad (830), Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914), Ibn Hisham (701), Ali Hassan al-Majid (1941), Ya'qubi (801), and Fuad Masum (1938).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Al-Mutawakkil ranks 28. Before him are Faisal II of Iraq (1935), Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914), Tiglath-Pileser I (-1200), Shalmaneser III (-900), Nahum (-600), and Ashurnasirpal II (-1000). After him are Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914), Fuad Masum (1938), Tariq Aziz (1936), Al-Amin (787), Šuppiluliuma I (-1344), and Nabopolassar (-658).

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